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Show DWR To Change Elk Residency Status One hundred to 150 Utah Elk will be changing their residency status to Nevada if all goes well, according to Utah's game manager Dwight Bunnell. In a Wildlife Board meeting held Jan. 11, the Utah Wildlife Board approved the transplant of Utah elk taken from the desert land and livestock live-stock range in northern Utah to be relocated to Nevada. These transplants are very important since Nevada has suitable elk habitat but very few existing elk. Most of the present-day herds in Utah can trace their beginnings to a transplant. Even though elk were present on most of Utah's mountains moun-tains in pioneer days, by 1900, only the Uinta Mountains had a few native animals. Yellowstone National Park first provided the elk transplants into Utah. Since the 1930's however, transplanted animals have been taken tak-en from existing Utah herds. The Mt. Dutton range was first planted with elk taken from Mt. Nebo near Nephi in 1936. Other early transplants of elk in southwestern south-western Utah occurred in the Fish Lake area, on Cedar Mountain, and on the Indian Peaks. The Boulder Mountain elk were moved from the Manti Mountains of Emery County in 1975. From these transplanted herds, elk have migrated onto other areas such as Panguitch Lake. |